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Introduction to Food and Health

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

We find ourselves facing global epidemics of obesity and diabetes. To address these public health crises, we urgently need to explore innovative educational strategies for physicians and the general public. Physicians who eat a healthy, balanced diet and who understand what that entails, are more effective at counseling their patients to improve their health behaviors.

This CME activity provides a practical approach to supporting healthy eating for a variety of medical needs. Through the use of didactic videos, animated cases, and interactive activities course participants will gain proficiency in recommending well-established nutritional practices and assessing barriers to healthy eating for patients and physicians alike. By evaluating personal eating behaviors and barriers to healthy eating, physicians will emerge from the course better equipped to support sustainable positive change in their patients’ food choices while simultaneously having an opportunity to embark on optimizing their own nutritional health.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This course is designed to meet the educational needs of physicians in primary care, family practice, and internal medicine as well as nurse practitioners, physician assistants and allied health professionals involved in nutritional assessment and education of patients.

DATES, DURATION AND FEE

Release Date: May 23, 2016

Expiration Date: May 23, 2018

Estimated Time to Complete: 2.5 hours

CME Credits Offered: 2.50

Registration Fee: FREE

TO OBTAIN CME CREDITS

Review the information below and complete the entire activity.

Complete the CME Post-test, CME Evaluation Survey, and CME Activity Completion Statement at the end of the activity.

You must receive a score of 75% or higher on the post-test in order to receive a certificate. You will have two attempts to answer each multiple-choice question (or one attempt for questions with only two options) to pass the post-test.

Once you attest to completing the entire online activity and have scored 75% or higher on the post-test, your certificate will be generated automatically and will be available on your Dashboard page.

Physicians will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. All other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:

Describe the fundamental principles of nutrition.

Conduct a motivational interview and nutritional assessment in a primary care setting using evidence-based techniques and tools.

Formulate a strategy based on a nutritional assessment to improve their health and their patients’ health.

Provide patients with skills-based learning resources to support their achievement of targeted nutrition goals.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Test Your Knowledge

Module 1. The Rationale for Physicians

Module 2. Food & Health

Module 2. Talking to Patients

Module 4. Communicating with your Patient about Food

Module 5. Following Up with Patients

Course Wrap-Up

Resources and References

Help!

DISCLOSURES

The following planners, speakers and authors have indicated that they have no relationships with industry to disclose relative to the content of this activity:

Maya Adam, MDLecturerStanford University School of MedicineCourse DirectorSpeaker

Tim Dang, BATeaching Assistant, Division of Pediatric Infectious DiseasesStanford University School of MedicinePlanner

Jennifer Dietz, MADirector of Evaluation, Student AffairsStanford University School of MedicinePlanner

Michael Pollan, MAJames S. And John L. Knight Professor of JournalismUniversity of California, Berkeley, School of JournalismSpeaker

The following speaker indicated having relevant financial relationships with industry to disclose:

David Eisenberg, MDAdjunct Associate Professor of Nutrition, Dept. of NutritionT.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard UniversitySpeakerFareWell, Campus for Health (Japan), and CKK Health Products Group (China): Consulting

TECHNICAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

Kim Walker, Ph.D.IRT EdTech

William BottiniIRT EdTech

Greg BruhnsStanford Online

ROLE PLAY ACTORS

Tracy A. Rydel, MDTherese Truong, PA

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Computer with Internet connection

Current version of Chrome, Firefox or Safari browser. You must have javascript enabled.

ACCREDITATION AND DESIGNATION OF CREDITS

The Stanford University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Stanford University School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The California Board of Registered Nursing recognizes that Continuing Medical Education (CME) is acceptable for meeting RN continuing education requirements as long as the course is certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (rn.ca.gov). Nurses will receive a Certificate of Participation following this activity that may be used for license renewal.

COMMERCIAL SUPPORT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Stanford University School of Medicine has received and has used undesignated program funding from Pfizer, Inc. to facilitate the development of innovative CME activities designed to enhance physician competence and performance and to implement advanced technology. A portion of this funding supports this activity.

CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC COMPETENCY

California Assembly Bill 1195 requires continuing medical education activities with patient care components to include curriculum in the subjects of cultural and linguistic competency. It is the intent of the bill, which went into effect July 1, 2006, to encourage physicians and surgeons, CME providers in the State of California and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to meet the cultural and linguistic concerns of a diverse patient population through appropriate professional development. The planners and speakers of this CME activity have been encouraged to address cultural issues relevant to their topic area. The Stanford University School of Medicine Multicultural Health Portal also contains many useful cultural and linguistic competency tools including culture guides, language access information and pertinent state and federal laws.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

If you are having technical problems (video freezes or is unplayable, can't print your certificate, etc.) you can submit a Help Request to the OpenEdX Team. If you have questions related to CME credit, requirements (Pre-test, Post-test, Evaluation, Attestation) or course content, you can contact the CME Online support team at cmeonline@stanford.edu

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cordain L, Eaton SB, Sebastian A, et al. Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the 21st century. The American journal of clinical nutrition. 2005;81(2):341-354.